What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.

His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives.

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon

I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. – Napoleon

One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".

Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by "voidness."

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered?

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.